Ezekiel Emanuel

Oncologist Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., is Director of the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. In 2009, he was named White House Special Adviser for Health Policy under the Obama administration. Dr. Emanuel has also authored a number of books, including Healthcare Guaranteed (2008), and is a leading proponent of the Guaranteed Healthcare Access Plan.

Appeal

Dr. Zeke, as he's known to friends and colleagues, is the eldest of the acclaimed Emanuel brothers of Chicago, and comes across as the most empathetic of the trio. He isn't brash or combative like his younger siblings Rahm Emanuel, the legendary political fundraiser and current White House Chief of Staff, or Ari Emanuel, the notorious Hollywood super agent. If given the choice between the three, women who are attracted to highly intelligent and not heavily testosterone-fueled types would likely find Ezekiel Emanuel the most suited to their tastes. Considering that he's a nationally known Harvard-educated doctor, Zeke Emanuel is sure to have some sort of underground network of middle-aged female secret admirers who'd love to get examined by him. Dr. Zeke's high-profile White House posting only serves to increase his popularity with that demographic, especially amongst women who voted for the Democrats in 2008 and hope to see sweeping reform to the nation's health care policies.

Success

Regarded as America's "Dean of Health Policy," Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel has been honored with numerous prestigious prizes over the past two decades which have helped establish him as the perfect candidate to advise the President on health care reform. His publication on medical ethics, The Ends of Human Life, received an honorable mention for the Rosenhaupt Memorial Book Award, and he was named Hippocrates magazine's Ethicist of the Year in 1996. Ezekiel Emanuel has twice received the NIH's Clinical Center Director's Award, and he's been elected a member of the Association of American Physicians, as well as the Institute of Medicine. In 2007, he was awarded the President's Medal for Social Justice from Roosevelt University. Beyond his published works in countless medical journals, Ezekiel Emanuel-penned articles and op-eds have appeared in The New Republic, The Atlantic and The Wall Street Journal. The Medical Directive, a comprehensive living will developed by Dr. Emanuel, has been championed by several publications, including the New York Times, Harvard Health Letter and Consumer Reports on Health.

Ezekiel Emanuel Biography

Ezekiel Jonathan Emanuel was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1957. His father, Benjamin Emanuel, was a pediatrician, while his mother, Marsha Smulevitz, is a psychiatric social worker. He earned a B.A. in Chemistry from Amherst College in 1979, prior to going overseas to study Biochemistry at Oxford University. After graduating from Oxford in 1981 with a M.Sc. degree, he entered Harvard Medical School, specializing in Medical Oncology. In 1984, he entered Harvard's Philosophy graduate program.

Ezekiel Emanuel obtained his M.D. in 1988, and his Ph.D. in Political Philosophy the following year. During his time at Harvard, he served as a Teaching Fellow for a number of courses, including the Program in Ethics and the Professions at the Kennedy School of Government. He received the Social Science Dissertation Award in 1987, and the Toppan Prize for the most outstanding political science dissertation of 1988. Following Harvard, he completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston.

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In 1990, Ezekiel Emanuel received the American Medical Association's Burroughs Wellcome Leadership Award. That same year, he began a fellowship in Medical Oncology at Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, as well as a clinical fellowship in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Harvard University Press issued his first book, The Ends of Human Life: Medical Ethics in a Liberal Polity in 1991, and he was honored with the American Cancer Society's Career Development Award the following year.

From 1992 to 1994, Ezekiel Emanuel served as an an Instructor in Medicine, and later, Associate Professor of Social Medicine at Harvard. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship but declined the offer to join President Bill Clinton's Health Care Task Force in 1993. During his tenure on the White House Task Force, he also served on the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, as well as on the bioethics panel of the Pan-American Healthcare Organization.

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In 1997, Ezekiel Emanuel was selected as the first Chair of the Department of Bioethics at the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). From 1999 to 2002, he chaired the American Society of Clinical Oncology Task Force on Conflict of Interest, and then served as Chair of the Committee to Develop Ethical Guidelines. In 2004, he became President of the NIH Assembly of Scientists, representing about 4000 NIH research scientists and physicians. In 2008, he published Healthcare Guaranteed.

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In 2009, Ezekiel Emanuel joined his brother, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, as part of Barack Obama's administration. Dr. Emanuel is on extended detail from his duties at the NIH to serve as Special Adviser for Health Policy for the White House Office of Management and Budget. He has been a key adviser to the president's mission to overhaul the American health care system, which is the greatest health care reform plan that's been undertaken in decades.